#American Educational System

[agoodflyting]

Fun Fact:

I got an angry email from a parent last year because I showed Coraline in class. (On the last day before a holiday! Not even during normal class!)

They said I was unfit to be a teacher and that I was a 'threat to the spiritual well-being of (student)' because I subjected their (13-year-old) kid to 'unholy things'. They also said I had single-handedly shaken their faith in the school system.

Because I had shown Coraline. To a 13-year-old.

The most ridiculous part is that the kid went home and was talking about how much they *enjoyed* the movie. I'm not sure if the parent was just looking for something to get mad about or if they honestly think Coraline is capable of destroying the souls of the innocent. 🤔

[distant-traces-of-beauty]

"Ballistic markings are the fingerprints of a gun" is to the Ace Attorney universe what "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell" is to the American education system

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

In the United States it's common for high schools to stage a simulated lethal crash to teach kids about the dangers of distracted or impaired driving. This often includes fake blood and first responders to stage rescuing people from the crash. Is this done anywhere outside the United States? I don't feel like it is. So I ask

[oneshotgremlin]

happy Friday everyone

[l-herz]

Adaine and Aelwyn: Bite the Hand

[mental-mona]

I was expecting this article to be a series of conspiracy theories and/or railing against "woke madness." It is not. It is a series of horrifying trends and examples of antisemitism disguised as anti-Israel sentiment in American public schools, particularly Californian schools. (Even if it was only anti-Israel sentiment, it'd still be extremely excessive.) Both the teachers and the kids get in on the ideological nightmare and personal attacks, sometimes the latter because of apparent encouragement/indoctrination by the former.

[aurae-rori]

i fucking love slandering the american education system with ratio

so im writing for csm aventio au right.. and aventios first proper conversation.. is.. about the american education system...

[segretecose]

i once bullied tumblr into learning the difference between renaissance and baroque paintings which is further proof that being a cunt works if you are gentle with these people you'll get no results it's when you hit 50+ "uhm the american education system..." replies that you start to see real change

[zevranunderstander]

number #1 tactic that people use to not sound as racist as they are when they talk to black people: 'uhh so you AMERICANS need to stop pretending everything is about YOU. why should i know this im not from the us :/' (= is talking about like. a phenomenally internationally well-known black artist)

[batwynn]

Woke up thinking about the report I made in my high-school freshmen science class about some of the evil shit Monsanto was up to when the teacher asked for something about the environment, and how he gave me a F because it was ‘not based on facts’ because I focused on some of the more direct and local environmental problems they caused. Like certain rivers next to their company plants being severely contaminated, and the ground/earth contamination studies done around multiple towns near their buildings. He claimed I was making stuff up and ‘dramatizing’ the damage they caused because he ‘hadn’t heard about any of that.’

Like, buddy. Sorry you don’t have ADHD and a parent with access to world-wide libraries, science journals, and Jstore but I cited my sources and you can, presumably, read?

Anyway. Fuck Monsanto forever and fuck people who think their breadth of knowledge is the extent of reality.

[redbuddi]

While I do believe it can be difficult if not impossible to separate art from artist, especially when the artist is still alive and their success leads to actual institutional change, I think it is absolutely imperative to remove art from fandom. No matter how annoying a fandom is the art can still be good, and no matter how seemingly kind and accepting a fandom is the art can still be harmful. But most of all it's important to come to your own conclusions about a piece before engaging in discourse about it, or else no proper analysis will ever be able to be had.

[dramatic-dolphin]

can u guys stop mentioning american political stuff on my posts like it's relevant, i don't live there + i don't know what that is + i don't care.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

This captures it. Chappell Roan is rightfully disillusioned by the two-party system.

Here are some of the correct responses to her (justified) criticism of the U.S. government.

[ramen-flavored]

media literacy is dead and it’s killing me

[bodymachine]

regarding the “the american education system didn’t teach ___ so i never learned it” posts, some of you are veryyyy much missing what’s wrong w/ those statements when you give the blanket retort that the american education system actually did teach ___. newsflash: public school curriculums aren’t the same in every school/district/county/state. but to take it a step further, the quality of public education depends on state laws and the funding available to schools, which funding depends largely on local property taxes, which means low-income communities end up with low-quality schooling, fewer extracurricular programs, fewer resources for disabled students, more corrupt administration. the system is not about problems with curriculum, it’s much more and much worse than that.

besides the property tax funding, standardized tests also play a huge shitty role in this mess. schools that don’t have high test scores, i.e. underfunded schools often with majority low-income black and brown students, are considered “low-performing” and actually get less funding from the government as a result, like needed funds can get cut, and their teachers get paid less (and don’t even get me started on how programs like teach for america are sending young, white, fully inexperienced teachers to the poorest schools).

standardized tests are chosen at the state level, so states with huge wealth disparities and obviously segregated districts (like CT where i’m from) are measuring the performance of poor kids and rich kids using the same content and scoring system to arbitrarily determine who’s smart enough to deserve a better funded education. so the tests, i.e. the government, clearly favor the success of rich, white students. and the problem isn’t so much which content gets taught and how, as it is how little the american government actually cares about kids learning and having promising futures. like, education truly isn’t the point of american public schools. what they care about is deciding who gets to thrive in the world once they become adults.

since schools with majority white and wealthy populations essentially set the bar for what kind of performance is “standard,” everyone else whose circumstances (academic or otherwise) don’t allow them to reach that level are set up by the system to fail. being a “low-performing” school means kids are forced to repeat grades, and graduation becomes something out of reach. the schools don’t care about their students’ needs (especially when the teachers and administrators are mostly white), and real-life factors beyond students’ control cause them to struggle in school and they end up getting punished/suspended/expelled at horrifying rates, and yeah there’s a whooooole host of reasons why school can fucking suck and i’m barely scratching the surface.

anyway, what i’m trying to say here is YES the american education system sucks—not just because certain topics related to racism and imperialism and american history and other countries are glanced over or fully left out of curriculum, but also because success is being gatekept by the white and wealthy. it’s actively a racist system. not being taught important things about the world, or not being taught in a way that is actually engaging, is a problem that anyone anywhere can face, but it’s particularly insidious when you realize that the school system is TRYING to harm poor, black, brown, and immigrant communities.

so just to circle back to the real problem on display in those ignorant posts, it really makes me sick that white liberals can develop such a whiny complex around their own insular lack of curiosity when they don’t even know what “american education system” they’re talking about. and trying to look better than them by saying they just weren’t paying attention in school is completely completely beside the point.

[boag]

Crazy how many grown adult Americans understand nothing about how our government and electoral system work . I’ve had to explain to multiple grown men that Biden is still the president in recent days